PCTEL Inc. has announced the next generation of its Trooper antenna, the company’s flagship multi-band platform for public safety fleets. The new Trooper II provides optimal wireless communications performance through the antenna’s 4-port 4G LTE connections and 4×4 802.11ac Wi-Fi MIMO capability, the company said. It also incorporates PCTEL’s newest high rejection multi-GNSS technology for high precision tracking and asset management.... read more
Two drones armed with explosives detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Aug. 4 in an apparent assassination attempt that took place while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers, while the speech was being broadcast live on television, according to press reports. The footage of this apparent assassination attempt can be viewed below. Drone security solutions company... read more
A GPS-like ground-based technology teamed with inertial measurement and driving robots to deliver the necessary accuracy when obstructions knocked out GPS as a reliable sole sensor. read more
An Esri Storymap provides a quick snapshot of the raging fires across the United States and provides context to the severity of the California fires. The interactive map can be explored by panning and zooming. Click on a fire and information about that particular fire is displayed including the start date, containment and links to the latest news and social... read more
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the August 2018 issue of GPS World magazine. read more
“All the News that Fits” can sometimes be a hard motto to live up to, and it has turned out so this month. I want to get more material into our pages for your perusal, and it just could not be crammed into the System of System pages in this issue. Therefore, I cede my “Out in Front” editorial to... read more
Komatsu America Corp. and Propeller Aero Inc. are partnering to boost the efficiency of construction job sites using drone-powered mapping and analytics software. With drones becoming an increasingly common worksite tool, Komatsu has identified aerial mapping and analytics as a key component of its Smart Construction initiative — a range of integrated hardware and software products designed to offer an... read more
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